Pope Francis Daily Reflections: August 2nd 2021
August
Human Family
Family as Domestic Church
and School of Learning
Love is patient and kind; Loves does not envy or boast; it sis not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on all its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Monday 2nd August : I often think that a good indicator for knowing how a family is doing to seeing how their children and elderly are treated.
Tuesday 3rd August : The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person… But if love is missing. If joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus always gives us that love: he is its endurance source. In the sacrament, he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.
Wednesday 4th August: In the family, the person becomes aware of his or her own dignity and, especially, if their upbringing is Christian, each one recognises the dignity of every single person, in a particular way the sick, the weak, and the marginalised.
Thursday 5th August: The family is the place where one learns to love it is the natural centre of human life. It is made up of faces, of people who love, dialogue, make self-sacrifices for one another, and defend life, especially of the most vulnerable and the weakest.
Friday 6th August: One could say, without exaggeration, that the family is the driving force of the world and of history. Our personality develops in the family, by growing up with our mum and dad, our brothers and sisters, by breathing in the warmth of the home.
Saturday 7th August: The family is the place where we receive our name; it is the place of affection, the space of intimacy, where one acquires the art of dialogue and interpersonal communication.
